Bernardo Villela is like a mallrat except at the movies. He is a writer, director, editor and film enthusiast who seeks to continue to explore and learn about cinema, chronicle the journey and share his findings.

Since that point I have slowly reduced the fields to come up with the nominees. All “film” categories have 10 nominees, except for Best Documentary. All other categories have 5 nominees, save for the individual youth acting categories which occasionally have six.

Introduction

It was a pretty great, and quirky year of viewings for me, as the nominations will bear witness to. The nominations will merely list honorees. Further commentary and explication will be offered with the winners post in a week’s time.

Gavin Hood based on a novel by Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game
Jennifer Lee, Story Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck and Shane Morris, based on “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Andersen; Frozen
Nanouk Leopold based on the novel The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker; It’s All So Quiet
Mark O’Rowe based on a novel by Daniel Clay Broken
Ermek Tursunov based on The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway; The Old Man

“Broken” and “Deep Dark Canyon” are the only ones on video right now. “It’s All So Quiet” does have a US distributor so it should be on disc eventually. I’ll let you know when I hear back about it.

I’m actually glad to have gotten a question about any of those categories because it allows me to preemptively say how brutal the decisions were in those categories. Rationale will follow, no spoilers now and I had planned on discussing omissions.